Hotel desk-register.



6;. L. J. DELAFORGE V HOTEL DESK REGlSTER.

APPLICATION'EILED ocr. s, 1915.

L2MA38 Patented Jan.30,191?.

2 SHEETS-SHEET I.

e. L. I. DELAEORGE.

HOTEL DESK REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 6, 1915.

L m fio I Patented. Jan. 30,1917.

MHHIIII Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed bctober 6, 1915. Serial Ho; 54,469.

5 State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hotel Desk-Registers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to desks and more particularly to counter desks for hotels, the object of the invention being to provide a registering device which will permit a guest of the hotel to register without informing all of the usual lobby loungers of his name and address and without enabling them to ascertain his name and address or thenurnbe! of his room and cause him annoyance by calling onhim or communicating with himfor advertising or business purposes.

9 One object of this invention is to provide means whereby the strip or web of paper on which the guests register may be run backward when desired; another object being to effect improvements in the construction of the rollers so that the latter may be readily placed in and removed from the desk; another object being to effect improvements in the construction of the table in the desk The invention consists in the construction, combination and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

1:), the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective yiew of a hotel register desk constructed in accordance with my invention and with the cover raised. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same. Fig.-

3 is a transverse sectional View on a plane disclosing the winding roller. Fig. 4 is a similar view on a plane disclosing the unreeling roller. Figs. 5 and 6 are detailed views.

The desk 1 may be ofthe form here shown or of any other suitable form and is pivotally mounted as at 2 so that it may be turned, 'is provided at the front with receptacles 3 for cards, time-tables and other like articles and has a hinged cover and a suitable lock 5 for securing the cover when closed. The cover has an opening 6 to expose the writing surface of the paper web or strip which is operated by the rolls and around said opening is a plate 7 on which may be printed instructions for signing and operating the device and preferably contains words Name and. From to indicate where the name of the guest and his last place of residence are to be written on the slip of paper exposed through the openin In the desk is a table 8, the top of which is fiat or horizontal and which supported on standards 9 at the lower ends of which are feet 10 that are screwed or otherwise suitably secured to the l'mttoin of the desk.

At the rear end of the table is an inclined ledge 11.

Front and rear rollers 152- 13 are pro" vided to which a paper or strip 1/ which the guests register is attache. roller 12 being the winding roller ano. the roller 13 being the unwinding or unreeling roller.

The roller 12 has a shaft 1.4; which is mounted in bearings 15 the upper ends of a pair of standards 16 which secured to the bottom of the desk, the said hearings opening upwardly to enable the said roller with its shaft to be readily raised. therefrom or rernounted therein Hook shaped springs 17 are pivotally connected to the said standards at their lower ends as at 18 and are adapted to be engaged over the journals of the roller shaft to hold latter the boar: ings and to exert friction on the shaft thereby prevent casual rotation of the rcllen At one end of the shaft is a cross sectionally rectangular extension 19.

A shaft 20 ill shaft 14; is inoui side the deslr nally as well as at its inner end f shaft 20 may be coupled to or uncoupied' from the shaft '14 at will. Said shaft 20 also has a ratchet wheel 23 which normally engaged by a pawl 24 which is pivctally mounten at and is actuated by a spring This pawl when engaged prevents retrograde rotatil n of the roller 1'2, and when the pawl is disengaged from the ratchet wheel said roller may be reversely turned as'will be understood. A. device to enable the said pawl to be disengaged is here shown as an arm 27 which operates in a slot 27 in one side of the desk;

The roller 13 has its shaft 28 mounted in bearings 29 in standards 30 which are similar to the standards 17 hereinbefore described, and said standards 30 are provided with pivoted hook springs 31 to bear over said shaft 528 and prevent casual rotation of said shaft and the roller 13. At one end of may be attached either to the outer end of the shaft 34 or to that of the shaft 20 so that either of the rollers may be turned by said crank.

The paper strip or Web may be moved for- 4 wardly-by turning the roller 12 and its crank in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 1 after each guest writes his name. When it is desired to turn the paper strip rearwardly as when a number of guests have registered their names on the strip in succession and the clerk desires to affix the numbers of'the rooms to which they are assigned the crank is attached to the shaft 34 and turned in the same direction as before, the gears 33 32 reversing the direction of rotation of the roller 13, and the pawl 24 having been disengaged from the ratchet wheel 23 the-strip moves rearwardly and the roller 12 also turned rearwardly as will be understood.

A roller 36 covered with a blotter and bearing on the paper strip or web and over the table is mounted in brackets 37 which depend from the cover of the desk. One of the journals 38 of the roller is screwed thereon and is detachable therefrom and hence the blotter roller may be readily dismisses I mounted when it is desired to place another blotter cover thereon.

Having thus described my invention, I claim In a desk register of the class described, a web operating roller having a shaft mounted in bearings which permit the removal of said shaft therefrom, an operating shaft arranged in line with said roller shaft and mounted for rotation and also for longitudinal movement, said operating shaft and said roller shaft having means at their opposing ends to enable them to be coupled and uncoupled, and means to actuate the operating shaft, ,a ratchet wheel on said operating shaft, a spring pressed pawl to engage said ratchet wheel, means to release said pawl from said ratchet wheel, an unwinding roller, a stub shaft geared to said unwinding roller, and means to engage and rotate either the winding roller or the stub shaftat will and both in the same direction, to enable the winding roller and unwinding roller to be turned either forwardly or reamvardlv as may be desired'in manipulating t fweh which connects said rollers.

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

GEORGES LEON J ULES DELA'FORGEI Witnesses:

EMIL JOHNSON,

ANDY DANIELSON.

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